Phone Losing Charge? Technology Created by UCLA Engineers Allows LCDs to Recycle Energy
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]With photovoltaic polarizers, devices could be powered by sunlight, own backlight By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout We've all worried about the charge on our smartphone or laptop running down when we have no access...
UCLA Engineers Create Polymer Light-Emitting Devices That Can Be Stretched Like Rubber
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: Stretchable electronics, an emerging class of modern electronic materials that can bend and stretch, have the potential to be used in a wide range of applications, including wearable...
Profs’ Water Cleaning System Could Save Thousands of Gallons, Dollar Bills
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Alison Hewitt UCLA’s power plant had something that professors Yoram Cohen and Panagiotis Christofides wanted: hopelessly filthy water. And they have invented something that the Cogeneration Plant wanted: a way to clean...
UCLA Engineering Establishes Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering with $2M Gift
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced the establishment of the William D. Van Vorst Chair in Chemical Engineering, made possible by a $2 million gift from...
Summer Program Sparks Teens’ Interest in Computer Science Careers
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By V. Claire Jadulang Tucked away on an underground level of Boelter Hall, the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) hosts a conference room gathering where six computer science researchers discuss a cell phone...
UCLA Study Shows Bacteria Use Batman-like Grappling Hooks to ‘Slingshot’ on Surfaces
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Bacteria use various appendages to move across surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky form of movement known as "twitching" motility,...
UCLA Engineers Show Dynamic Experimental Evidence for Phenomenon of Spreading Drops
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: The spreading of a liquid drop on a solid surface is a simple, everyday phenomenon. And while it is known that when a drop of oil is placed on a solid surface, its radius increases as its...
UCLA Engineering Faculty and Students Present Research at Annual Broadcom Technical Conference
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, held its annual Technical Conference last month at which top engineers from Broadcom offices around the...
Researchers Use Wireless Technology to Speed Transition to Electric Vehicles
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Judy Lin For Engineering Professor Rajit Gadh, knowledge is power. In particular, that’s electric power and finding new ways to harness, store and deliver it as growing numbers of American drivers give up their...